Was it a slightly tasteless off-the-cuff utterance? Yeah, probably. As microaggressions go, it's gotta be the most micro of the micro.

Did they do the narration and storytelling between songs? I've heard that at some gigs, he narrated the abandoned "concept" of the album, a la early Genesis concerts, but at most he just did the songs and had fun with the audience and the ids.

Ever heard the album? It's like they tried to make a Paul's Boutique for the 90's, and it didn't take. Fascinating, weird stuff that sounds like threw every idea they had at the wall and a few stuck.

I actually had to Google, because you've nailed the tongue-in-cheek Billie Joe style a little too perfectly there.

I misread this as "Booze there be a bargain, it say so in the name." And I thought, what a wonderful drunken-pirate novelty account. We haven't had one of those yet.

Ever eaten maggot-cheese? Or is that the bridge too far?

The Song for Bob Dylan is more in the style of The Band. His Dylan stylistic tributes are on David Bowie II/Space Oddity.

I believe the alternate ending of the pilot involves Bob being a magical drifter who was hiding in the basement of a building in Twin Peaks, a concept later repurposed as the Winkies Man in "Mulholland Drive."

You heard it here first, folks- Lisa Diaz killed and ate her own family.

Crowe has a rough somewhat ugly voice, but one that fit the character. One problem with the stage musical is that it treats Javert as a detective mastermind and the living, infallible personification of Law and Justice Without Mercy, rather than the mortal, somewhat damaged man the novel portrays.

One of my favorite things about the "Les Miserables" film is that it treats Thenardier as the clever master of disguise that he is in the novel, instead of the bumbling Dickensian baddy he is in the stage musical.

Once in a while you get a failure or a turd that nonetheless launches everybody forward. "The Class" was that for 2000-2010 TV stars; "Pokémon the Musical" was that for Broadway performers. (Andrew Rannells was somewhat humiliated when he found out that the show was on Youtube in its entirety.)

My dad and I call Sean Hayes "the closer," because sitcoms trot him out as a recurring guest JUST before cancellation. He's like one of those cats that eat death.

I think I'd watch it. The misadventures of A More-Effeminate Colin Mochrie and A Less-Effeminate Ryan Styles.

"A-well, I wish it could be Christmas every dayyyyyyy…"

I believe we're the Pokémon Generation.

Alice Cooper got the two extremes of Elton John's early-to-mid-seventies voice (harsh but slightly tuneless bari-tenor rock belt, and low croon), but absolutely none of the middle range.

I'm gonna leave that particular exchange out of the musical.

I want the stage rights to Cooper's work, but I think he actually has them for himself until he dies; he's said in interviews about wanting to play himself in a big musical spectacular inspired by his old stage shows, which is kind of NOT the direction I'd want to go in.

"Welcome to My Nightmare" is peak Bob Ezrin if you're into the excessive Ezrin Studio Sound of the mid-70s. And Cooper wrote and recorded "From the Inside" with Bernie Taupin and the Elton John Band (which had just been fired by Elton John), and it's actually a pretty good look at what it would have been like if Elton…